No place is without its risks, but from what you've told me of The City, no child should ever have to dwell there.

[Besides, there are serial killers everywhere. Lobelia is certainly not a product of his environment, loved as he was. Some men are simply damned from the start.]

Bonheur et chagrin, joie et souffrance... I doubt there is any land free of these things. Still, it is better to take a risk and pursue paradise than remain eternally in bedlam.